Michelle Bloodworth, PhD,  has over 12 years experience in program development, project management, research, and evaluation. She received her master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in Community and Prevention Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a pre-doctoral fellow with NIMH’s Prevention and Research Training Program. Examples of Michelle’s current work include the development of school-based prevention programs, the evaluation of school-based health care systems in NM and CO, and the evaluation an early childhood and community schools initiative in Albuquerque. She has extensive experience with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and regularly combines both approaches when designing evaluations. In her work, Michelle seeks participation of multiple stakeholder groups to design and conduct program evaluations that lead to program improvement and organizational capacity building. She is the author of numerous published articles and chapters and has been a speaker at national and international conferences. Michelle is currently VP of Communications for the New Mexico Evaluators and is a Past President.

E-mail: michelle@apexeducation.org